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Discrete Tunable Color Entanglement

2009; American Physical Society; Volume: 103; Issue: 25 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physrevlett.103.253601

1092-0145

Sven Ramelow, Lothar Ratschbacher, Alessandro Fedrizzi, Nathan K. Langford, Anton Zeilinger,

Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing

Although frequency multiplexing of information has revolutionized the field of classical communications, the color degree of freedom (DOF) has been used relatively little for quantum applications. We experimentally demonstrate a new hybrid quantum gate that transfers polarization entanglement of nondegenerate photons onto the color DOF. We create, for the first time, high-quality, discretely color-entangled states (with energy band gap up to 8.4 THz) without any spectrally selective filtering, and unambiguously verify and quantify the amount of entanglement (tangle, 0.611 +/- 0.009) by reconstructing a restricted density matrix; we generate a range of maximally entangled states, including a set of mutually unbiased bases for an encoded qubit space. The technique can be generalized to transfer polarization entanglement onto other photonic DOFs, like orbital angular momentum.